'Special 26' to be Remade in Tamil

Even as Lingusamy is busy working on his next directorial with Suriya and Samantha, the director is also gearing up to produce the Tamil remake of the Hindi film, 'Special 26'.

Even as Lingusamy is busy working on his next directorial with Suriya and Samantha, the director is also gearing up to produce the Tamil remake of the Hindi film, Special 26.

While he is still in talks to rope in a big hero to play the lead role, essayed by Akshay Kumar in the Hindi original, Lingusamy confirms that Kajal Aggarwal will reprise her role in the Tamil version too.

Lingusamy tells us, "It's an engaging film, and I'm happy to be making its Tamil version. For this, my production house will team up with the Bollywood studio that produced the original.

We're yet to finalize the rest of the details and an official announcement will be made soon."

Directed by Neeraj Pandey - of A Wednesday fame - the film is based on a real-life incident in which a group executed a fake raid in Mumbai posing as CBI officers.